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...Cambodia, fighting between the South Vietnamese troops and their Cambodian allies broke out twice over the weekend. On Saturday night, according to the Associated Press, South Vietnamese marines attacked a Cambodian outpost at Veal Thom, seven miles outside of Phnom Penh. Later a Viet Cong force attacked the same outpost and a Cambodian spokesman said he did not know whether the three Cambodians killed and seven wounded were victims of the South Vietnamese or the Viet Cong...
Paul David Meadlo recalled the briefing his company received from Captain Medina the afternoon before the assault. Medina told the men, Meadlo testified, that all the My Lai villagers were "Viet Cong or Viet Cong sympathizers, and we were supposed to kill everything there -women, children, livestock." Three defense witnesses corroborated that...
Throughout his testimony, Meadlo referred to the villagers as Viet Cong, even correcting Trial Judge Reid Kennedy's use of the term Vietnamese. "You mean Viet Cong, sir," said Meadlo. Just once did he betray any emotion or deviate from his insistence that he had followed orders to kill a feared enemy: "Captain Medina was there before this ditch. With all the bodies laying around, why didn't he put a stop to all the killing...
Next to the Viet Cong, the helicopter has been the greatest threat G.I.s have had to face in Viet Nam; chopper mishaps account for most of the 2,448 Americans killed in air accidents over the past decade in Southeast Asia. In the last three months of 1970, aircraft accidents were the chief cause of noncombat deaths (91), ahead of mishaps with "friendly" mines and other explosive devices (39), auto accidents (30), suicides (18) and accidental gunshot wounds (17). But the fastest-rising cause of noncombat deaths is drug abuse. In 1969, the Army did not even bother to tabulate...
...securing import permits and selling foreign goods at outrageous markups. Bureaucrats collect bribes for dispensing the permits, and the Saigon government gets most of its income from import taxes. The report also contends that large shipments of American rice have reduced Saigon's incentive to fight Viet Cong influence in the rice-rich Mekong Delta...